Microelectrode structures in AC electrokinetics can generate high
electric field strength to manipulate, characterize and separate
particles in suspending medium. It has been widely used in
biological, pharmaceutical and medical fields. The goal of this project
is to create arrays of thousands of addressable electrostatic traps
to hold and arbitrarily sort single cell. The traps use dielectrophoresis
(DEP) to create electrical barriers that trap cells, a phenomenon
that has been used for over 30 years. The numerical method will
be used to simulate the manipulation, characterization and
separation of micrometer particles and provide the optimized for
actual real-world use.